The 1911–12 Ottawa Hockey Club season was the club's 27th season, third in the National Hockey Association. The club did not repeat as league champion, placing second to Quebec, after a disputed game had to be replayed, and the Club lost the replay.

Contents

Prior to the season, on November 2, Bruce Ridpath was seriously injured with a fractured skull after being hit by an automobile on Yonge Street in Toronto, he lived in Toronto and was rumoured to be a possible manager of the future Toronto NHA franchise.[1]

The NHA changed its rules prior to the season, the rover position was dropped and teams played six-per-side. The change was protested by Ottawa, which had had great success playing seven-per-side. However, the NHA owners instead decided to drop the rover. Ottawa threatened to ice a seven-man team for a game against Quebec, but did not follow through on their threat.[2]

Fred "Cyclone" Taylor went on public record stating that he would not play for Wanderers as he had a good position with the Interior Department in Ottawa, and would not play at all instead of playing for the Wanderers. Ottawa would attempt to secure his rights from Montreal. Ottawa would offer to trade Skene Ronan (who would go on to win the scoring championship) for Taylor but was turned down.

On January 24, Fred Taylor played for Ottawa against the Wanderers, despite his rights being held by the Wanderers, for which he refused to play for. Ottawa would win the game, but it was protested and ordered replayed if necessary, this was Mr. Taylor's final game in the NHA, as he would join Vancouver the next year.

On February 9, Skene Ronan would score five goals in a game against the Wanderers and follow up with eight goals in a game against the Wanderers on February 14.[3]

On March 2, Quebec defeated Ottawa 6–5 in a game decided after 23 minutes of overtime, with four seconds to play, Joe Malone scored to tie the game[4] and Joe Hall scored the winning goal. Ottawa would now have to play the replay game against the Wanderers in Montreal, on March 5, Ottawa lost the replay, and the loss would cost them a tie of the league championship, as Quebec finished 10–8 and Ottawa would finish 9–9.

1.
Ottawa Senators (original)
–
The Ottawa Senators were a professional, ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Canada which existed from 1883 to 1954. The club was the first hockey club in Ontario, a member of the National Hockey League. The club, which was officially the Ottawa Hockey Club, was known by nicknames, including the Generals in the 1890s, the Silver Seven from 1903 to 1907. Generally acknowledged by historians as one of the greatest teams of the early days of the sport. Ottawa HC played in the first season during which the Stanley Cup was challenged in 1893, the club repeated its success in the 1920s, winning the Stanley Cup in 1920,1921,1923 and 1927. In total, the won the Stanley Cup eleven times. In 1950, Canadian sports editors selected the Ottawa HC/Senators as Canadas greatest team in the first half of the 20th century. The club competed in the NHL until the 1933–34 season, when it relocated the NHL franchise to St. Louis, Missouri, the organization continued the Senators as an amateur, and later semi-professional, team in Quebec senior mens leagues until 1954. The Ottawa Hockey Club was founded by a group of like-minded hockey enthusiasts. A month after witnessing games of hockey at the 1883 Montreal Winter Carnival, Halder Kirby, Jack Kerr and Frank Jenkins met, being the first organized ice hockey club in Ottawa, and also the first in Ontario, the club had no other clubs to play that season. The only activities that winter were practices at the Royal Rink starting on March 5,1883, the club first participated competitively at the 1884 Montreal Winter Carnival ice hockey tournament wearing red and black uniforms. Future Ottawa mayor Nelson Porter is recorded as the scorer of the clubs first-ever goal, Frank Jenkins was the first captain of the team, he later became the president of the Hockey Club in 1891 and of the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada in 1892. For the 1885 season, the club adopted gold and blue as its colours, Ottawa earned its first-ever victory at the tournament over the Montreal Victorias, but lost its final match to the Montreal Hockey Club to place second in the tournament. The 1886 Montreal tournament was cancelled due to an outbreak of smallpox, on December 8,1886, the first championship league, the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada was founded in Montreal. It was composed of clubs from Montreal plus a Quebec City club. Ottawas Thomas D. Green was named the first president of the league, under the format, Ottawa lost the one challenge it played in that first 1887 season to the Montreal Victorias. After that season, Ottawa HC became inactive, the Royal Rink, which had been their primary facility, had been converted to a roller skating rink, and ice rink facilities were at a shortage. This changed with the opening of the Rideau Skating Rink in February 1889, One of the principal organizers in the restarting of the team was Ottawa Journal publisher P. D. Ross, who also played on the team

2.
Pete Green (ice hockey)
–
Peter Pete Green was a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and trainer with the Ottawa Hockey Club/Ottawa Senators. Green won ten Stanley Cup titles in his time with Ottawa,4 as a trainer, Green also was a trainer with the Ottawa Football Club. His sons Oliver and Alex also had fantastic careers, Green won four Stanley Cup titles with the Ottawa Hockey Club in 1903,1904,1905,1906 as a trainer. In 1907 he was promoted to head coach replacing Alf Smith who left join the Kenora Thistles and he helped Ottawa win cups in 1909,1910,1911. He left Ottawa after the 1913 season, however in 1919–20 he was re-hired to coach Ottawa. Green won three more Stanley Cups as a coach in the 1920,1921 and 1923 finals and he died at an Ottawa hospital aged 66 after a short illness on September 22,1934. The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol.1, 1893–1926 inc

3.
Captain (ice hockey)
–
In ice hockey the captain is the player designated by his team as the only person authorized to speak with the game officials regarding rule interpretations when he is on the ice. At most levels of each team must designate one captain. The captain wears a C on his sweater, while the alternate captains wear an A, as with most team sports that designate captains, the captain is usually a well-respected player and a de facto team leader. The captain is a dressing room leader, and also represents the players concerns to management, NHL teams need not designate the same player as captain from game to game, though most teams do. For instance, in the 1985–86, when Boston Bruins captain Terry OReilly retired, Ray Bourque, Middleton wore the C during home games and Bourque for road games during the seasons first half, and the two switched for the second half. This arrangement continued until Middleton retired in 1988 and Bourque became the sole captain, some teams name two or three captains for a season. Some teams rotate captains rather than one for an extended period of time. During each NHL game, however, only one player can officially be designated as captain. Captains are selected by different means, in instances, teams have held votes among their players to choose a team captain, while on other occasions. Captains are often due to their seniority in the game. However, franchise players—current or emerging stars—have also been named captains, though not required, many captains have previously served as alternate captains of their team. The NHL introduced a rule prohibiting the goaltender from being a captain following the 1947–48 season, in the NCAA, there is no position-based restriction on the team captain. Teams may designate alternate captains, also erroneously called assistant captains. Alternate captains wear the letter A on their jerseys in the manner that team captains wear the C. In the NHL, teams may appoint a captain and up to two alternate captains, or they may appoint three alternate captains and no captain. A team commonly has three alternate captains when the team has not selected a captain, or when the captain is injured. International and USA amateur rules do not allow this, they stipulate that each team shall appoint a Captain, if the team chooses to not appoint a captain, they are not permitted to appoint a fourth alternate captain. When the captain is off the ice or unavailable for the game, NHL teams may choose alternate captains from game to game or appoint regular alternate captains for the season

4.
Marty Walsh (ice hockey)
–
Martin J. Walsh was a Canadian amateur, later professional, ice hockey player. Walsh played for the Ottawa Senators, winning three Stanley Cups in 1909,1910 and 1911 and is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame and he retired from ice hockey in 1912 and moved west to Edmonton to work. In 1914, Walsh contracted tuberculosis, succumbing to the disease in March 1915, Walsh was born in Kingston, Ontario, the son of Michael and Catherine Walsh. Martin had an older sister Loretta and older brother William, Walsh played junior hockey for the local Kingston Frontenacs. At seventeen, Walsh entered Queens University, Walsh played hockey for the Queens senior hockey team from 1902–1906 and the team won the intercollegiate title in 1904 and 1906. The 1906 squad challenged for the Stanley Cup in 1906 against the Ottawa Senators, Walsh scored four goals in the two games of the series which was won by Ottawa. Walsh also played football for Queens, and was a member of their 1905 intercollegiate championship team. Walsh turned professional for the 1906–07 season with the Canadian Soo of the International Professional Hockey League, Walsh was sought after by several clubs, including the Montreal Shamrocks and Montreal Wanderers, but he decided to sign with Ottawa. He joined the Ottawa Hockey Club in 1907 and played for the club for five seasons and he was a high-scoring forward and in 1909, Marty scored 42 goals in 12 games. When the National Hockey Association was formed late in 1909, Renfrew attempted to sign Ottawas star players including Walsh, when Walsh re-signed with Ottawa, players Fred Lake and Albert Kerr decided to turn down their Renfrew offers. In 1911, he scored ten goals in a Stanley Cup challenge match against Port Arthur, after the 1911 season, Bruce Stuart retired and Walsh was named captain of the team. Walsh played his last professional game with the Senators in 1912, Walsh was recognized for his talent in 1962 when he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. In 1912, Walsh left for Winnipeg with Dubby Kerr to start a cattle ranch and their plans changed when Kerr was lured out of retirement to play in the new Pacific Coast Hockey Association. There were reports that the PCHA had signed Walsh as well, in 1913, Walsh moved west to the Edmonton area, where he worked as a paymaster for the Grand Trunk Railway. While in Edmonton, he coached the Edmonton Eskimos team for two seasons and he guided the Eskimos to the 1913 Inter-City Hockey League title and a Allan Cup challenge. In 1914, Walsh fell ill with tuberculosis, in February 1915, Walsh entered the Gravenhurst Sanitorium for treatment, but when admitted, the doctors estimated he had only a short time left to live. Walsh died on March 27,1915 and his remains were transported to Kingston for burial in St. Marys Cemetery after a funeral at St. Marys Cathedral. At his death, Walshs only relative was his sister Loretta Keaney of Sudbury,1908,1909 - ECAHA/ECHA First All-Star team 1909 - ECHA Most Valuable Player Hockey Hall of Fame

5.
The Arena, Ottawa
–
The Arena, also known as Deys Arena was an arena for ice hockey located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was the home of the Ottawa Hockey Club from 1908 to 1923 and it was the third in a series of ice hockey venues built by the Dey family of Ottawa. At the time of its building, it was Canadas largest arena, the arena was built in 1907 and was built because audiences for hockey matches had out-grown the previous arena, known as Deys Rink or Deys Arena. The spectator capacity was 7,000, of which 2,500 was standing room. The Arena, as it was called, was built on leased land at Laurier Avenue at the Rideau Canal, on the location of todays Confederation Park, near the current Ottawa city hall. This is very close to the location of the first Deys Rink and it is also close to the location of the Royal Rink at 28 Slater, which was where the Ottawa Hockey Club first practised in 1883. The land for The Arena was leased from landowner Esther Sherwood for the rate of $166.66 per month, the Arena opened on January 11,1908 for a game between Ottawa and the Montreal Wanderers, the top rivalry of the day. The last Senators game at the arena was held on March 10,1923, the Ottawa Auditorium was also built by the Deys, who were part owners of the Ottawa Senators. This third rink was torn down by the government at the end of the lease in 1927 to make way for the ceremonial Driveway improvement project along the Rideau Canal. The Arena hosted the 1910 and 1911 Stanley Cup challenges, the Arena was used for other sports as well as ice hockey. The 1912 Canadian Figure Skating Championships were held in February 1912 at the Arena, boxing matches were held there including Canadian heavyweight champion Tommy Burns versus Len Darcy, and Canadian lightweight champion Bobby Ebber versus Homer LeBlanc on October 16,1925. The matches drew over two thousand fans, the Arena was a large improvement internally from the previous Dey Arena. The dressing rooms, rest rooms, smoking rooms and lobby were steam-heated, the main doors were on Laurier Avenue, and a north entrance existed onto Slater Street, which at the time extended to the Canal. The exterior was simple, and did not meet Sherwoods lease criteria of an architectural feature of Ottawa. At its building, it was the largest ice arena in Canada, the Arena ice surface was unusually shaped. Both ends are curved, with no straight sections behind the net and this design was passed along to the successor Ottawa Auditorium ice surface design. Dey Brothers rinks were home to the Senators, the long road to the Palladium

6.
Goal (ice hockey)
–
In ice hockey, a goal is scored when the puck completely crosses the goal line between the two goal posts and below the goal crossbar. A goal awards one point to the attacking the goal scored upon. The term goal may also refer to the structure in which goals are scored, the ice hockey goal is rectangular in shape, the front frame of the goal is made of steel tube painted red and consists of two vertical goalposts and a horizontal crossbar. A net is attached to the back of the frame to catch pucks that enter the goal, the entire goal is considered an inbounds area of the playing surface, and it is legal to play the puck behind the goal. Under NHL rules, the opening of the goal is 72 inches wide by 48 inches tall, the object of the game of hockey is to score more goals than the opposing team. Goaltenders and defencemen are concerned primarily with keeping the team from scoring a goal. For a goal to be scored, the puck must entirely cross the line between the posts and under the crossbar of the goal frame. The NHL abolished this rule starting in the 1999-2000 season after the disputed triple-overtime goal in the 1999 Stanley Cup Finals, brett Hull of the Dallas Stars scored the series-clinching goal against the Buffalo Sabres. On video replay, it was clear that Hulls skate was in the prior to the puck. Typically, the last player on the team to touch the puck before it goes into the net is credited with scoring that goal. Zero, one, or two players on the goal-scoring team may also credited with an assist for helping their teammate to score the goal. If another player on the goal-scoring team touched the puck to help score the goal before the player touched it without an opposing player intervening. If yet another player on the team also touched the puck before that without an opposing player intervening. However, a rule says that one point can be credited to any one player on a goal scored. Usually on a team, forwards score the most goals and get the most points, although defensemen can score goals. In professional play, goaltenders only occasionally get an assist, the number of goals scored is a closely watched statistic. Each year the Rocket Richard Trophy is presented to the NHL player to have scored the most goals, the trophy is named after Maurice Richard, the first player to score 50 goals in a season, at a time when the NHL regular season was only 50 games. The player to have scored the most goals in an NHL season is Wayne Gretzky

7.
Skene Ronan
–
Erskine Rockcliffe Ronan was a Canadian professional hockey player who played 10 professional seasons. He was a member of the 1916 Montreal Canadiens Stanley Cup championship team and he was born in Ottawa, Ontario. He would stay with Haileybury in 1910 in the season of the NHA. In 1911, Ronan remained in the NHA after Haileybury returned to the TPHL, for the 1911–12 season, Renfrew dropped out of the league and its players dispersed by drawing lots. Ottawa picked Ronan after the Wanderers had picked Cyclone Taylor, ottawas regular centre Marty Walsh was not playing well and Ottawa tried Ronan out at centre. Ronan blossomed at centre, scoring eight goals in one game and five in another, Ronan would play two more seasons with Ottawa before being sold to the Toronto Shamrocks before the 1914–15 season, but did not duplicate his goal totals. Ronan played a season and a half with the Shamrocks before being dealt to the Montreal Canadiens, after the season, Ronan signed up with the military where he served until 1918. He returned to hockey and was re-acquired by Ottawa in a trade with the Canadiens in exchange for Harry Hyland. However, he had lost his offensive skills and was released after eleven games without scoring any goals, 1915–16 - Stanley Cup Champion Coleman, Charles. The Trail of the Stanley Cup, vol, skene Ronan at Find a Grave

8.
Percy LeSueur
–
Sergeant Percivale St-Helier LeSueur was a Canadian senior and professional ice hockey goaltender. He was a member of the Smiths Falls Seniors for three years, with whom his performance in a 1906 Stanley Cup challenge series attracted the attention of his opponents, although his team lost the series, LeSueur excelled in goal, keeping the games close. Nine days after the defeat, he joined the Silver Seven and he remained with Ottawa through the 1913–14 season where he served as team captain for three seasons, and assumed coaching duties in his final season with the team. LeSueur was traded to the Toronto Ontarios for the 1914–15 season, after playing the following season for the Toronto Blueshirts, he enlisted in the army and fought for Canada during the First World War. He returned to following the conclusion of the war, serving in various roles including referee, coach, manager, arena manager. He coached ten games in the National Hockey League with the Hamilton Tigers, as a journalist, he was the first reporter to include shots on goal statistics in game summaries. LeSueur was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1961, born in Quebec City, Quebec, LeSueur played amateur hockey in his hometown with several teams on the right wing. He scored a regular season goal with the Quebec Hockey Club in 1901, for the 1903–04 season, he moved to Smiths Falls, Ontario, to play for the Seniors. When the teams usual goaltender fell ill, LeSueur agreed to play goal, in March 1906, the Seniors issued a challenge for the Stanley Cup to the Ottawa Silver Seven. In the two-game, total goals series, Smiths Falls lost the first game 6–5, both games were played at Deys Arena in Ottawa, on March 6 and 8. Following his teams loss in the match, LeSueur, a bank clerk. Impressed by his performance, the Silver Seven asked him to join their team, the Silver Seven called the timing of LeSueurs arrival a coincidence, but with an eight-goal lead in the series, the Wanderers did not protest LeSueurs eligibility. Frank Smith appeared to put Ottawa ahead 11–10, but what would have been his goal of the game was disallowed by an offside call. The Wanderers responded with an attack, resulting in Lester Patrick scoring two late goals, leading Montreal to a 12–10 series victory and the Stanley Cup. LeSueur was the first goaltender, and one of two to play for two different teams in Stanley Cup challenges in the same season. LeSueur played for Ottawa through the 1913–14 season, in 1908, he was the teams sole representative at the Hod Stuart Benefit All-Star Game, played on January 2. The Wanderers defeated a team of All-Stars, made up of the top players of the other teams. LeSueur remarked in the Ottawa Free Press that while joining the Silver Seven was his biggest thrill, in the 1909 ECHA season, LeSueur won the Stanley Cup with the Ottawa, now nicknamed the Senators, after the team led the league with 10 wins

9.
Goals against average
–
Goals Against Average is a statistic used in field hockey, ice hockey, lacrosse, soccer and water polo that is the mean of goals allowed per game by a goaltender. GAA is analogous to a pitchers earned run average. In Japanese, the translation is used for both GAA and ERA, because of this. For ice hockey, it is calculated per game by dividing the number of goals against by the number of minutes played in the game then multiplied by 60. For a season, divide the number of goals against by the result of the total number of minutes played multiplied by 60. Alternatively, take the number of goals against, multiply that by 60 minutes, when calculating GAA, overtime goals and time on ice are included, whereas empty net and shootout goals are not. It is typically given to two decimal places, the top goaltenders in the National Hockey League currently have a GAA of about 1. 85-2.10, although the measure of a good GAA changes as different playing styles come and go. The top goaltenders in the National Lacrosse League however, currently have a GAA of about 10.00, at their best, elite NCAA water polo goalies have a GAA between 3.00 and 5.00

10.
National Hockey Association
–
The National Hockey Association, officially the National Hockey Association of Canada Limited, was a professional ice hockey organization with teams in Ontario and Quebec, Canada. It is the predecessor to todays National Hockey League. Founded in 1909 by Ambrose OBrien, the NHA introduced six-man hockey by removing the rover position in 1911, during its lifetime, the league coped with competition for players with the rival Pacific Coast Hockey Association, the enlistment of players for World War I and disagreements between owners. The disagreements between owners came to a head in 1917, when the NHA suspended operations in order to get rid of an unwanted owner. The remaining NHA team owners started the NHL in parallel as a measure, to continue play while negotiations went on with Livingstone. A year later, after no progress was reached with Livingstone, the NHAs rules, constitution and trophies were continued in the NHL. In November 1909, the Eastern Canada Hockey Association, holder of the Stanley Cup, the Montreal Wanderers team of the ECHA had been bought by P. J. Doran, owner of the Jubilee Rink in Montreal and he intended to move the teams games there. The Jubilee was smaller than the Wanderers current rink, the Montreal Arena which meant visiting teams would earn less on their trips to play the Wanderers. On November 25,1909, the teams in the league disbanded the ECHA and formed the new Canadian Hockey Association. The team had applied to the Stanley Cup trustees as champions of the Federal League, at the November 25 CHA founding meeting, held at the Windsor Hotel in Montreal, OBrien applied to join the CHA but the application was rejected. Sitting in the lobby of the hotel after the CHA meeting, OBrien met Jimmy Gardner of the Wanderers, together, they decided to form their own league, the National Hockey Association. At the same time, to build a rivalry and capture francophone interest in Montreal, OBrien and Gardner conceived of creating a team consisting of francophone players, to be managed by francophones. In all, OBrien and his father, Michael John OBrien, were financing four teams in the league, the Renfrew Creamery Kings, Cobalt, Haileybury, the Cobalt and Haileybury clubs were from the Timiskaming Professional Hockey League and Renfrew from the Federal Hockey League. Along with the Wanderers, the league had five teams, the OBriens were determined to win the Stanley Cup and a bidding war for players immediately started. Frank Patrick and Lester Patrick were each signed by the Renfrew Millionaires for $3,000 apiece, Renfrew also signed star player Cyclone Taylor of the champion Ottawa Senators team, reputedly at $5,000 per season. Attendance at the CHA games was poor and a meeting of the NHA was held on January 15,1910 to discuss a merger of the two leagues. Instead, the NHA admitted Ottawa and the Montreal Shamrocks to the NHA, the owners of the Montreal Le National were offered the ownership of the Canadiens but turned it down. The Quebec Bulldogs and the teams of the CHA were not even considered for membership

11.
Bruce Ridpath
–
David Bruce Ridpath was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and general manager. He was a member of the 1911 Stanley Cup champion Ottawa Senators before an accident ended his playing career. Ridpath never married and died in 1925 at the age of 40 at St. Michaels Hospital in Toronto and he suffered a stroke on May 18 and never regained consciousness. Ridpath played junior hockey in 1904 with the Westerns in the Ontario Hockey Association, as a senior, he joined the Toronto Marlboros of the OHA in 1905. In the season of 1905–06, Ridpath secretly played for money in the Temiskaming League and his appearance in the league was found out, and he was banned from the OHA in November 1906. He subsequently helped to found the Toronto professional team and was their initial captain and he played in eight games, scoring 17 goals in the Pros exhibition schedule of 06–07. He played three seasons for the Torontos, helping the team to win the 1908 OPHL league title, on January 30,1909, he scored seven goals in one game as Toronto defeated Brantford 15-10. Later that season, he played for Cobalt in the Temiskaming League that would form the foundation of the new National Hockey Association later that year, Ridpath signed with the Ottawa Senators in 1909-10, playing in the NHA. He played on a line with Gordon Roberts and Marty Walsh and rover Bruce Stuart and later with the line of Walsh, Dubbie Kerr. In 1910–11, his most productive season, he scored 23 goals in 16 games and help Ottawa win the NHA final and the Stanley Cup. Ridpath suffered a fractured skull when he was hit by a car on Yonge Street in Toronto on November 2,1911, benefits were held in Ottawa and Toronto for Ridpath, who was a popular player. Ridpath was appointed the first manager of the Blueshirts and assembled the Toronto Blueshirts for their first season of play in the NHA and he resigned as manager in October 1913. He was considering playing for the team, but his sight was not good enough to play, 1911–12 NHA season Harper, Stephen J. A Great Game, The Forgotten Leafs and the Rise of Professional Hockey

12.
Cyclone Taylor
–
Frederick Wellington Fred Cyclone Taylor, OBE, was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and civil servant. Taylor was one of the earliest professional players and he played professionally for the Portage Lakes Hockey Club, the Ottawa Hockey Club and the Vancouver Millionaires from 1905 to 1923. Acknowledged as one of the first stars of hockey, Taylor was one of the most prolific scorers of his era and he won several scoring championships, and won the Stanley Cup twice, once in 1909 with Ottawa and again in 1915 with Vancouver. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1947, while in Ottawa in 1907, Taylor gained employment with the Canadian government. He maintained this employment after his career in hockey, later becoming Commissioner of Immigration for British Columbia, frederick Wellington was born in Tara, Ontario, the second son and fourth of five children to Archie and Mary Taylor. Archie, the son of Scottish immigrants, was a salesman who sold farm equipment. Mary, a devout Methodist, stayed at home and raised the children, at the age of six, Taylor moved with his family to Listowel, a town fifty miles south of Tara. In Listowel he played for the junior and intermediate teams in the Ontario Hockey Association, in the 1904–05 season, he joined a team in Thessalon, Ontario led by Grindy Forrester when a dispute broke out as to which team held his OHA rights. The OHA, led by secretary W. A. Hewitt, refused to grant Taylor a change of residence permit and he applied for reinstatement, but was denied, and remained in Thessalon through the winter. According to some sources, Hewitt wanted Taylor to play for the Toronto Marlboros, for the 1905–06 season, Taylor played a handful of games for Portage la Prairie in Manitoba. Several teams in the new International Professional Hockey League tried to get Taylor to join them, marie, Ontario and Calumet, Michigan, which even got Taylor to sign a contract. But in February 1906 he ended up reuniting with Forrester on the Portage Lake team, based in Houghton, the team won the league championship with Taylor playing point. He had started as a forward, but was too fast for his linemates to keep up with him, player salaries outpaced revenue in the league and the IPHL went out of business in 1907. Taylor then joined the Ottawa Hockey Club of the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association, while playing for Ottawa in 1907, the Governor General gave him the nickname Cyclone, based on his skating ability. In December 1907, it was reported that Taylor had been offered $1,500 to leave Ottawa and play for the team in Renfrew, Taylor played lacrosse in 1908 for the Ottawa Capitals. On June 27,1908, he was arrested during a game for punching referee Tom Carlind in the face after receiving a penalty. The referee would not press charges, but the president was in attendance. The league governors only issued a censure, the team expected Taylor to join them the following season, but he chose to focus on his job and hockey

13.
Joe Malone (ice hockey)
–
Maurice Joseph Cletus Phantom Joe Malone was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played in the National Hockey Association and National Hockey League. He was notable for his feats and his clean play. He scored the third-most career goals of any player in major hockeys first half-century and is the player in the history of the NHL to score seven goals in a single game. Malone broke in at the age of 19 for the Quebec Bulldogs of the Eastern Canada Hockey Association in the 1909 season, scoring eight goals in 12 games. The next season the NHA formed, but Quebec was left out of the loop, rejoining Quebec in 1911, he was named the team captain and so served for the Bulldogs seven NHA seasons. His brother Jeff Malone was also played for Quebec in 1913 when they won the Stanley Cup, in 1917 Joe scored 41 goals in 19 games for Quebec. When the NHL was founded in 1917, Quebec did not operate a team its first season, Malone was claimed by the Montreal Canadiens. Malone scored at least one goal in his first 14 NHL games to set the record for the longest goal-scoring streak to begin an NHL career and this streak still stands as the second-longest goal-scoring streak in NHL history. However, the team was weak on the ice—its goaltender had the poorest goals-against average the NHL would ever see -. The team was relocated to Hamilton for the 1921 season, despite missing the first four games of the season as well as the franchises continued poor performance, Malone still finished fourth in league scoring with 28 goals. He finished fourth in scoring the season as well. After trading Lalonde, the Canadiens traded for Malone in 1923 and he played nine games without scoring the next season, playing his last game on January 23 against his former mates in Hamilton, before retiring. The Canadiens did not include his name on the Cup in 1924, however, he is credited by the NHL as winning his third Stanley Cup that season. Malone finished his career with 343 goals and 32 assists over 15 professional seasons, Malone was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1950, and is also a member of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. In 1998, he was ranked number 39 on The Hockey News list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players, the list was announced 74 years after his last game and 91 years after his professional debut, making him the earliest player on the list. Malone died of an attack on May 15,1969, in Montreal. Elected to Hockey Hall of Fame in 1950, NHL scoring leader in 1918 and 1920. Stanley Cup Champion,1912 and 1913 Quebec Bulldogs,1924 Montreal Canadiens, most goals in one game, January 31,1920 at Quebec

14.
Joe Hall
–
Joseph Henry Bad Joe Hall was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Hall played senior and professional hockey from 1902 to 1919, when he died as a result of the epidemic of 1918. He won the Stanley Cup twice with the Quebec Bulldogs and once with the Kenora Thistles, Hall was born in Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom and grew up in Brandon, Manitoba. He played for the Montreal Canadiens in their first two seasons in the National Hockey League from 1917-1919, Hall won the Stanley Cup with the Kenora Thistles in 1907, for which he received a loving cup which is on display in the Hockey Hall of Fame. He won the Cup with the Quebec Bulldogs in 1912 and 1913 and he also challenged for the Stanley Cup in 1904 with the Winnipeg Rowing Club. In 1919, Hall was part of the Montreal Canadiens team that made it to the Stanley Cup Finals, the Finals were interrupted and eventually cancelled due to an outbreak of Spanish influenza. The flu was contracted by several players on both the Canadiens and their opponents, the Seattle Metropolitans, Hall would eventually succumb to pneumonia, related to his influenza, in a hospital in Seattle, Washington just four days after the Stanley Cup Final series was abandoned. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1961

15.
Quebec Bulldogs
–
The Quebec Bulldogs were a mens senior-level ice hockey team officially known as the Quebec Hockey Club, and later as the Quebec Athletic Club. One of the first organized ice hockey clubs, the club debuted in 1878 with the opening of the Quebec Skating Rink, the club continued as an amateur team through various leagues, eventually becoming professional in 1908. The club would play in the National Hockey Association and the National Hockey League, in 1920, the team moved to Hamilton, Ontario and became the Hamilton Tigers. The Quebec Hockey Club was founded in 1878, after the construction of the Quebec Skating Rink in 1877, play was by exhibition only, against teams drawn from the club members or visiting teams from Montreal. In 1883, the played in the Montreal Winter Carnival. After the AHAC, Quebec played in the Canadian Amateur Hockey League from 1899 to 1905, the club came close to winning the Stanley Cup on two occasions. In the 1894 season Quebec tied for the AHAC regular season lead with three other clubs, the AHAC drew up plans to hold the playoff solely in Montreal. Quebec declined to play in Montreal without one game in Quebec, in 1904, Quebec won the CAHL outright. In a dispute, the club did not win the Stanley Cup or challenge for it, the Ottawa Hockey Club was the defending champions in 1903–04, but withdrew from the league. Quebec went on to win the CAHL and expected to receive the Stanley Cup as league champions, the trustees of the Cup instead ruled that the Cup went to Ottawa. In late 1909, Quebec became a member of the Canadian Hockey Association in 1909. The CHA, however, would only last one month before being absorbed into the more powerful National Hockey Association. Rejected by the new league, the Bulldogs sat out the inaugural 1910 season, the following season, 1910–11, the Bulldogs took over the defunct Cobalt Silver Kings franchise, but had a rough initiation, finishing dead last with four wins and 12 losses in a 16-game season. On a positive note, and a sign of things to come, Jack McDonald scored 14 goals and Tommy Dunderdale scored 13. For 1911–12, the Bulldogs went from worst to first, with Joe Malone having a season, to win the OBrien Cup as champions of the NHA. The Dogs record improved to 10 wins and eight losses while Malone scored 21 goals, in a Stanley Cup challenge, they crushed the Moncton Victorias in two games, 9–3 and 8–0, in the best-of-three playoff. In their third season, Quebec would again finish first overall with a record of 16-4 losses to retain the championship, Joe Malone won the scoring race with an unprecedented 43 goals. His teammate, Tommy Smith, was a second with 39

16.
Montreal Wanderers
–
The Montreal Wanderers were a Canadian amateur, and later professional, mens ice hockey team. The team played in the Federal Amateur Hockey League, the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association, the Wanderers were four-time Stanley Cup winners. Prior to the formation of the NHL, the Redbands were one of the most successful teams in hockey, James Strachan announced the formation of the new club on December 1,1903. McKerrow President, James Strachan Vice-president, George Guile Secretary, Tom J. Hodge The club had formed over a dispute over the control of the Montreal Hockey Club, the Wanderers nickname was the namesake of several earlier Montreal teams. The first had played in the Montreal Winter Carnival hockey tournament in 1884, another was an independent team that played in 1893. A third played in the Independent Amateur Hockey League in 1885, along with teams rejected for membership in the Canadian Amateur Hockey League, the club helped found the Federal Amateur Hockey League on December 5,1903. Many of the early Wanderers had been members of the Montreal Hockey Club team of 1902–03 and that team had been known as the Little Men of Iron because of the players tenacity and small stature, and the nickname carried over to the new club. The Wanderers first Stanley Cup challenge was played against the Ottawa Hockey Club on March 2,1904, the Wanderers would refuse to continue the series unless the tie was replayed in Montreal, and forfeited the series. This was the start of a rivalry as Ottawa and the Wanderers would split the championship between them from 1903 until 1911. Ottawa and the Wanderers would meet again in 1906, after a regular season tie for first place in the ECAHA, and played a total goals series for the league championship. The Wanderers won the first game in Montreal 9–1, Montreal defended the Cup in its first challenge as champions in December 1906. The Wanderers defeated the New Glasgow Cubs 17–5 in a total goals series. Montreal repeated as champions in 1907, then faced the Kenora Thistles in a Cup challenge in January 1907. Kenora defeated Montreal 4–2 and 8–6, taking the Cup back to Northern Ontario, the Wanderers would regain the Cup from Kenora two months later in Winnipeg, Manitoba, defeating the Thistles 7–2 and 5–6. The Wanderers won their third league title in 1908 while defending the Cup in a mid-season challenge by the Ottawa Victorias in January. After their third consecutive ECAHA title, the Wanderers were given its trophy, the Cup is on display in the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. After the 1908 regular season, Montreal defended the Stanley Cup twice in March 1908, in challenges by the Winnipeg Maple Leafs, the 1908 Wanderers team scratched their names inside the bowl, which was just prior to the second band being added to the Cup. The team included five future Honoured Members of the Hockey Hall of Fame, Moose Johnson, Hod Stuart, Riley Hern, Lester Patrick, before the 1909 season started, Montreal defended its Cup in a challenge by the Edmonton Eskimos, winning 13–10 in two games

17.
Montreal Canadiens
–
The Montreal Canadiens are a professional ice hockey team based in Montreal, Quebec. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League, the clubs official name is le Club de hockey Canadien. The team is referred to in English and French as the Habs. French nicknames for the team include Les Canadiens, Le Bleu-Blanc-Rouge, La Sainte-Flanelle, Le Tricolore, Les Glorieux, Les Habitants, Le CH and Le Grand Club. Founded in 1909, the Canadiens are the longest continuously operating professional ice hockey team worldwide, the franchise is one of the Original Six teams, a description used for the teams that made up the NHL from 1942 until the 1967 expansion. The teams championship season in 1992–93 was the last time a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup, the Canadiens have won the Stanley Cup more times than any other franchise. They have won 24 Stanley Cups,22 of them since 1927, on a percentage basis, as of 2014, the franchise has won 25. Since 1996, the Canadiens have played their games at Centre Bell. The team previously played at the Montreal Forum which housed the team for seven decades and all, the Canadiens were founded by J. Ambrose OBrien on December 4,1909, as a charter member of the National Hockey Association, the forerunner to the National Hockey League. It was to be the team of the community in Montreal, composed of francophone players. The teams first season was not a success, as they placed last, after the first year, ownership was transferred to George Kennedy of Montreal and the teams fortunes improved over the next seasons. The team won its first Stanley Cup championship in the 1915–16 season, in 1917, with four other NHA teams, the Canadiens formed the NHL, and they won their first NHL Stanley Cup during the 1923–24 season, led by Howie Morenz. The team moved from the Mount Royal Arena to the Montreal Forum for the 1926–27 season, the club began the 1930s decade successfully, with Stanley Cup wins in 1930 and 1931. The Canadiens and its rival, the Montreal Maroons, declined both on the ice and economically during the Great Depression. Losses grew to the point where the team owners considering selling the team to interests in Cleveland, Ohio, the Maroons still suspended operations, and several of their players moved to the Canadiens. Led by the Punch Line of Maurice Rocket Richard, Toe Blake and Elmer Lach in the 1940s, the Canadiens added ten more championships in 15 seasons from 1965 to 1979, with another dynastic run of four-straight Cups from 1976 to 1979. In the 1976–77 season, the Canadiens set two still-standing team records — for most points, with 132, and fewest losses, by losing eight games in an 80-game season. The next season, 1977–78, the team had a 28-game unbeaten streak, scotty Bowman, who would later set a record for most NHL victories by a coach, was the teams head coach for its last five Stanley Cup victories in the 1970s

18.
Albert Kerr
–
Albert Daniel Dubbie Kerr was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He was a member of the 1909 and 1911 Ottawa Senators Stanley Cup-winning teams, born in Brockville, Ontario, he started out as a professional with the Pittsburgh Lyceum and Pittsburgh Athletic Club in 1907 before returning to Canada with the Toronto Pros in 1908. He played with the Senators from 1909 until 1912, in 1913, he moved out west to play in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association until 1920 for the Victoria Aristocrats. Kerr started his career in his hometown of Brockville, Ontario, playing junior and he turned professional in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1907-08. Kerr started 1908–09 with Pittsburgh, but left seven games to join the Toronto team of the Ontario Professional Hockey League. After three games in Toronto, Kerr jumped to the Ottawa Senators and became a star, Ottawa was rebuilding after the Silver Seven years and was seeking a player on left wing. Executive Weldy Bate had read that Kerr had scored five goals in a game for Toronto, Bate sent coach Pete Green who confirmed Kerrs ability and an offer was made to Kerr, who then moved to Ottawa. He played with future Hall of Famers Marty Walsh and Billy Gilmour and he also played alongside Bruce Ridpath and scored 20 goals in nine games as Ottawa won the Eastern Canada Hockey Association title and the Stanley Cup. In 1910, Kerr suffered a serious cut to his right eye, at first losing his sight, necessitating an eye operation. He would recover to play in the 1910–11 season, during the 1910–11 season, he along with Walsh and Ridpath, scored in twelve consecutive games, including five in one game and had 32 goals in 16 games to finish behind Walsh in NHA scoring. Kerr, Ridpath and Walsh had one, two and three respectively in a 7–4 Stanley Cup challenge win over Galt, Ontario. Kerr retired after the 1911–12 season but Lester Patrick lured him to Victoria and he played three seasons with Victoria Aristocrats and moved with the club to Spokane for the 1916–17 season when the Victoria arena was taken over for wartime activities. Kerr served during World War I from 1917–19, but returned to ice hockey to play season with Victoria. He was laid to rest in Toronto, Ontario, official Encyclopedia of the National Hockey League. Andrews McMeel, Toronto, Distributed in Canada by Canadian Manda Group, notes Albert Kerrs career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database

19.
Jack Darragh
–
John Proctor Jack Darragh was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Darragh played the position for the Ottawa Senators in the National Hockey League. Darragh was a member of four Stanley Cup championship teams and a NHA championship team, Darragh played his entire professional career with the Ottawa Senators. He was a big part of their success, winning four Stanley Cups and he retired after that Cup win, but returned after one season to play for the Cup-winning team of 1922–23, the third in four seasons, all with Darragh in the lineup. He retired after the 1923–24 season and died a few months due to peritonitis. Stanley Cup champion,1911,1920,1921,19231963 - Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, list of ice hockey players who died during their playing career Hockey Hall of Fame. Honoured Members, Hockey Hall of Fame, Jack Darraghs biography at Legends of Hockey Jack Darragh career statistics at EliteProspects. com Jack Darraghs career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database Jack Darragh at Find a Grave

20.
Hamby Shore
–
Samuel Hamilton Shore was a Canadian professional hockey player who played several seasons for the Ottawa Senators, notably during the Silver Seven era when the club was champion from 1903 until 1906. Shore was a victim of the epidemic of 1918. Shore joined the Ottawa Hockey Club in 1904 when the club was already Stanley Cup champion, after one season, he played out west with Winnipeg Seniors, before returning to Ottawa in 1906–07. He returned to Winnipeg to play professional, with the Winnipeg Maple Leafs and he played in the Maple Leafs unsuccessful 1908 Stanley Cup challenge against the Montreal Wanderers. He did not play the season, 1908–09 due to illness. He returned to Ottawa, now a club, in the 1909–10 season. He would remain in the organization until October 1918, when he died of the Spanish flu epidemic and he was a member of a third Stanley Cup winner, in 1911. Shore was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Shore, when Ruby became ill with the flu in October 1918, Shore also fell ill. Shore died of pneumonia after an illness in Rideau Street Hospital. Shore was a servant with the Canada federal government Department of the Interior at the time of his death. Stanley Cup Champion,1905,1910,1911 with Ottawa ECAHA all-star, list of ice hockey players who died during their playing career Hamby Shores career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database Legends of Hockey page for Hamby Shore Hamby Shore at Find a Grave

21.
Joe Dennison
–
Joseph Charles Dennison was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played with the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey Association and he appeared in 14 games for the Canadiens during the span of the 1911–12 and 1912–13 seasons. Later, he worked for the Bell Telephone Company, retiring in 1945 due to his health and he died at his home in Ottawa in 1958 of heart disease

22.
Fred Lake (ice hockey)
–
Frederick Edgar Lake was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Amongst the teams he played with were the Ottawa Senators and Toronto Ontarios and he won two Stanley Cups in 1909 and 1911 with Ottawa. Born in Moosomin, Saskatchewan, Fred Lake first played hockey for the Moosomin hockey club in 1900–01. In 1902, he turned professional with Pittsburgh of the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, in 1903, he helped Pittsburgh win the US Professional Championship against Houghton, Michigan. For 1903–04, he would sign up for the new International Professional Hockey League first playing for the Michigan Soo Indians in Sault Ste, marie, Michigan before moving to Portage Lakes-Houghton, where he would play for three seasons until 1907. He moved back to Canada in 1907, playing first for the Winnipeg Strathconas then the Winnipeg Maple Leafs, as a member of the Maple Leafs he would play in an unsuccessful Stanley Cup challenge against the Montreal Wanderers in 1908. For the 1908–09 season, he re-signed with Pittsburgh of the WPHL, however, after three games he was released because of his rough play. He was signed by the Ottawa Hockey Club of the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association and he would remain a player with Ottawa for four seasons, winning another Stanley Cup championship in 1911, before being traded to the Toronto Ontarios in 1913, where he played for one season. For his final season, he returned via a trade to Ottawa and he only played two games for the Senators that season and retired after the season

23.
International Standard Book Number
–
The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, the method of assigning an ISBN is nation-based and varies from country to country, often depending on how large the publishing industry is within a country. The initial ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering created in 1966, the 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108. Occasionally, a book may appear without a printed ISBN if it is printed privately or the author does not follow the usual ISBN procedure, however, this can be rectified later. Another identifier, the International Standard Serial Number, identifies periodical publications such as magazines, the ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 in the United Kingdom by David Whitaker and in 1968 in the US by Emery Koltay. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108, the United Kingdom continued to use the 9-digit SBN code until 1974. The ISO on-line facility only refers back to 1978, an SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit 0. For example, the edition of Mr. J. G. Reeder Returns, published by Hodder in 1965, has SBN340013818 -340 indicating the publisher,01381 their serial number. This can be converted to ISBN 0-340-01381-8, the check digit does not need to be re-calculated, since 1 January 2007, ISBNs have contained 13 digits, a format that is compatible with Bookland European Article Number EAN-13s. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an ebook, a paperback, and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, a 13-digit ISBN can be separated into its parts, and when this is done it is customary to separate the parts with hyphens or spaces. Separating the parts of a 10-digit ISBN is also done with either hyphens or spaces, figuring out how to correctly separate a given ISBN number is complicated, because most of the parts do not use a fixed number of digits. ISBN issuance is country-specific, in that ISBNs are issued by the ISBN registration agency that is responsible for country or territory regardless of the publication language. Some ISBN registration agencies are based in national libraries or within ministries of culture, in other cases, the ISBN registration service is provided by organisations such as bibliographic data providers that are not government funded. In Canada, ISBNs are issued at no cost with the purpose of encouraging Canadian culture. In the United Kingdom, United States, and some countries, where the service is provided by non-government-funded organisations. Australia, ISBNs are issued by the library services agency Thorpe-Bowker

24.
1884 Ottawa Hockey Club season
–
The 1884 Ottawa Hockey Club season was the clubs first season of play. The club had formed the previous March and now was playing a season against other clubs and they played in red and black striped sweaters. The club played in the Montreal Winter Carnival Tournament, Thomas D. Green, Thomas Gallagher, F. M. S. Jenkins, Jack Kerr, Halder Kirby, Albert Peter Low, Nelson Porter, Ernest Taylor, George Young Hockey Match. When hockey came to the capital,125 years ago this week, a new book tells their fascinating story. Montreal Gazette, Feb.8,1884 Kitchen, Paul

25.
1890 Ottawa Hockey Club season
–
The 1890 Ottawa Hockey Club season was the clubs fifth season of play. Although the club was based at the Rideau Skating Rink, it played two games against outside teams and did not participate in championship play. P. D. Ross was named president, and Frank Jenkins. The Club became affiliated with the new Ottawa Amateur Athletic Club and adopted the red, black and white colours of the Association, and adopted the Clubs triskelion logo. The uniform was not yet the barber pole design, but a white jersey with black trim, the Club played an exhibition game against the Montreal Victorias at the Rideau Rink, in conjunction with the Canadian skating championships. The seconds played five games, four against Ottawa College, now the ice hockey team in town. Reginald Bradley Edwin Ted Dey Thomas Green Frank Jenkins Jack Kerr Chauncey Kirby Halder Kirby George Young Weldy Young Kitchen, Paul